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It’s that time again – time to post about what I’ve been doing that was apparently way more interesting than updating my blog at all for a month.

First, some housekeeping stuff. Yeah, I guess I’m using Google Buzz but I don’t really know if I have an opinion on it yet. I am not producing any Buzz-specific content (and I kind of want to punch myself for writing that) but I’m letting it suck in stuff from Twitter, Flickr, etc. Twitter is still probably the thing to read if you’re looking for frequent, inconsequential, context-free tidbits about my life. If you are more interested in reading about things I have read about, you may enjoy my Google Reader shared items. Man, living in the future is confusing.

As for awesome shit I have been up to for the past month, probably the most awesome is Nerd by Nerd East, a miniature gaming convention that took place in Brooklyn at the end of January. Events ran from Friday night (starting with our Pre-Game Social at Barcade and dinner at Dumont) to late Sunday night. The weekend was pretty heavily saturated with fun. I played a ton of boardgames – Pandemic, Zooloretto (which also exists as an iPhone app), Dominion, and Descent (my favorite game of the weekend). There was also a rousing session of True Nerd Trivia and a truly epic marbles tournament. Yes, marbles, and a great deal of drinking. All in all, a thoroughly satisfactory weekend.

It has also been a good month for food. I took advantage of a couple of Restaurant Week deals – lunch at Tabla and dinner at City Crab. Both were great, though I think I preferred City Crab’s prix fixe options over Tabla’s. However, probably the best meal I have had recently was cooked for me by two of my closest friends as a belated birthday dinner. The whole evening was really quite luxurious – I sprawled on the couch watching Top Gear and was fed course after course of astonishingly tasty treats. I kind of wish it was my birthday every month.

Music-wise, I hit up the MC Frontalot show at Pianos a couple of weeks ago. I have a couple of videos up, if it’s videos you want; I recommend starting with Tongue-Clucking Grammarian. I also stopped by Otto’s Shrunken Head for RockEM SockEM, and I wonder now why I did not live in that bar throughout college. It’s adorable, and they have a cinnamon-infused rum I quite enjoyed. I suppose I may have been too resolutely spooky then to set up camp in a tiki bar, but thankfully those days are behind me.

And finally, this past Tuesday I saw BAM’s production of The Tempest. I ended up much closer than I expected to and enjoyed the show very much. I have a particular fondness for the play which I suppose dates from the show at the ART in Cambridge which my brother was involved in. I also used it for a set design project in college and have read it many, many times.

So it’s been a pretty good month, I’d say. Here’s hoping the next is just as much fun.